Are Smartphone Apps for Our Heart a Smart Idea?

Lately, I’ve been reading a lot about some of the latest smartphone apps. In fact, a recent issue of AARP The Magazine reviewed these apps, listing their top six picks for monitoring your heart.

Five of these smart-looking apps enable you to track vital signs, such as your heart rate and blood pressure readings. Others monitor weight, sleep and activity levels, blood work results, and exercise work outs that you can share with your MD. One app even manages your prescriptions, including reminding you to take them.

Here Are My Caveats About These Smartphone Apps

Use them, and other apps you have such as games—only when your phone is in “airplane mode,” so your heart is not exposed to WiFi.

Keep that WiFi off except to download the app, and transmit the information.

If a USB cable connection to your main computer is an option, then that is the safest way to transfer the data collected on your smart phone to your computer to print out, or to email to your healthcare provider.

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